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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-24
An Old Man Charged with wife-Murder.

BROOKLYN. N Y. Aug. 23.-Mrs. Gertrude
Gross, aged II years. was found dead this morn
ing on the floor of her homo on New Jersey ave-
nue.. There was cut on the back OF her head,
which was supposed she received by striking on
the stove in her fall. The police, however,
found bloody hatehet in the room, and with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-24

LONDON. Aug %. "A letter has been received
from DR.. Parke. dated Aruwimi June 20. stat
ing that Stanley and all Of the Europeans COM
prised in his party were we'll The followers Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-24

IMPURITIES of the blood often cause great an
noyanees at this sss.son: Hoods Sarsaparilla
suri6es the blood and cnres all such affections
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05

ed; for, among the colored people liv-
ing on my plantation, were some to
whom / had become much attached,
especially to one old fellow who owed
me $40, and who had agreed to work
it out. In fact, did not want those
inofensive people (who paid me good
rent for bad land), to die in the flower
of their youth and usefulness, and /
passed many an uneasy night when I
knew that the chickens were roost-
ing low. This destructive calculation
you understand, was made last year.
Well, in fear and trembling 1 man.
aged to pull through, feeling, during
the time, however, that the dusky
friends of my childhood would soon
be taken from me. After awhile /
became reconciled. / was rather for
tunate in my collections, and bowed
in obedience to a decree which, at
first, had caused me much uneasiness.
Just about this time the same learned
magazinists published other articles,
giving a well-disciplined army of
figures, showing that the colored race
is rapidly increasing and that the
negroes chances of long life are Won
derfully good. This statement, sup
ported by figures which no sane man
could dispute, annoyed me, for, hav-
ing become reconciled to the idea OF
losing my colored friend, l did not
enjoy the revolution feeling brought
about by loss of that idea. Since
then / have decided to allow the col
ored man to take care of himself. l
know that the race problem is one of
great importance, but / can no longer
afford to neglect my business and
nurse it. The profound thinkers of
the North who have much leisure
and many words are, so far as l am
concerned, at perfect liberty to spend
their lives in disputing one year the
assertions which they made the year
before, but / have other work to per-
form. must patch up my spring
house to keep old Bolliver's dogs
from getting at my milk and butter,
for to me, a lump of butter has lost
much of its vergin purity when il
has been mouthed over a ten-acre lot
by an irresponsible and ungentleman
ly dog; and, when l meet goat
coming from my spring house, with
cream on his flowing beard, can nc
longer place unbounded confidence ir
my milk. Thus, you see, l can, with
justice, allow the race problem to take
| care of itself
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
The Doctor Said, "Let Him Try It.

South Jefferson, Me.
"Some time ago my son was taken
sick with a serious lung difficulty
which threatened to end in quick
consumption. We summoned our
family physician, who attended him
faithfully for four weeks, during which
time he gradually grew weaker. Be-
coming very much alarmed about
himself, and being satisfied that he
was growing worse all the time, he
finally refused to take any more
medicine from the physician, and ex-
pressed wish o.try Johnson's Ano-
dyne Liniment.. / Immediately told
the physician, expecting that he
would object to his using it; but he
did not. He said, let him try it; it
won't hurt him, and may do him
some good He did try it, and con-
tinued to use it for some time, taking
it inwardly, and bathing the chest
and lungs outwardly. Very soon he
began to improve, gradually gaining
strength, until at last we had the
satisfaction of knowing that the foun-
dation of his disease was broken up.
My son is alive and well today, po-
sessing strong and vigorous consti-
tuition, which we attribute, under
God to the use of Johnson's Anodyne
Liniment. / can further say that l
never allow myself to get out of the
article; and that in my judgement, it
is the best family medicine in the
world. [Dea. JOHN HODGKINs.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05

where, according to population, 80
much animal food and fat are con-
sumed, and none where less is need
ed. The consumers are not the
Indians, who cannot afford it, but the
higher classes, who generally eat
meat three times day. Doubtless
the early fading beauty of aristocratic
Mexicans, their overcorpulency, de-
cayed teeth and muddy skins, are
the result of injurious food and in
sufficient exercise, while quantity of
grease, chilli and sweetmeats con-
sumed, in a climate which is natural
ly irritating and infiammatory, helps
to bring on those ruinous nervous
complaints that here are so general.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
The Women of Mexico.

In Mexico it is only by degrees that
handsome faces begin to dawn upon
us. The beauty of these women con-
sists in superb black eyes, very fine
dark hair, small feet and prettily
haped hands and arms. Their chief
defects are that they are frequently
short and fat almost invariably being
mountains Of flesh at 4O); their teeth
are often bad-partly, no doubt, be-
cause there are few good dentists in
Mexico-ahd their compilations are
neither the clear olive of the Spaniard
nor the glowing brown ofthe Italian,
but muddy, bilious looking yellow,
says a letter to the Nashville Banner.
Worse than all this, their dressing is
execrable, and from lack of corset or
some defect in nature or the modiste,
their figures have usually an indies
cribably slouching look-the grace
less contour of "a meal bag tied in the
middle" Their notion of squeezing
the foot into a shoe halfinch too short
and always with an enormously
high heel directly under the instep
soon ruins the foot and destroys all
grace of carriage.
The handsomest women in Mexico
are not found at the capital, but-as
in Spain, it is said that none of the
beauties of Madrid were born there
the tall and graceful bellies here,
distinguished for clear compilations
and fine teeth, come from Jalapa,
Vera Cruz, Puebla and Guadalajara.
Among the lower classes, however,
one occasionally sees face and figure
so lovely that we may suppose just
such another was Donna Marina,
Cortes' enchantress-with hair and
eyes of extraordinary beauty, teeth
like pearls, complexion dark but
glowing, tiny bare feet and hands,
and arms whose exquisite shape
neither sun nor toll can injure. In
these rare cases it is more than likely
that, though Indian in appearance
there were intermarriages in former
days between her progenitors and de
scendants Of the Spanish conquerors
Some of the finest looking women
in Mexico, both in form and feature
are found among the civilized
Indians. While Mexican ladies O
high caste live in luxurious ease
seldom walking at all, and at As arr
shriveled, decrepit and useless, thu
! Aztec females, owing to outdoor
exercise and laborious habits, arr
strong and active at 70 years of age
True, they wrinkle at middle life, til
their faces at 80 resemble dried figs
but that is the inevitable effect o
tropical wind and early maturity
: There is no country in the world
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
The Race Problem.

Opie p. Read in Home ond Farm.
The Eastern magazinists who write
50 much about the negro and who
really know so little about him, last
year declared, with the force which
statistics usually give a man, that the
negro could but very little longer sur.
viye the trials of this uncongenial
world, where farmers insist that three
crooked sticks of wood are a cord.
These able writers presented, in a sort
of numerical dress parade, a grand
array of figures showing that the ne.
gro was done, and that his wisest
course was to unhitch his mule
throw his piow into the corner Of the
fence, and spend the few remaining
minutes Of his life in an impartial
examination of his soul. These
mathematical facts were presented il
way so convincing that / was griev
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
A Nations Growth.

The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser has collected some interesting
statistics which show the wonderful
rapidity with which the population
of our country is increasing: Itseems
but short time since l8S0-the year
in which Garfield was elected-and
yet in that brief space a new nation
of nearly 100000 souls has been
added to that which called him its
head. This is an accession equal to
the combined population eff Greece,
Servia, Switzerland and Denmark.
And to 60 back ten years further,
our new populatian sinceIS70, a date
still in easy memory of most of us,
equals the entire population Of Spain
and Portugal combined, twice exceeds
that of Brazil and nearly equals that
of Austria proper, or of the entire
Ottoman empire. To take another
base line, the year of the war, 1860
the population of the country has in.
creased from that time 100000.
Side by side with this increase we
need simply give the population of
the leading great powers of Europe !:
The United Kingdom, 34,65O,OOS ;
France, 81, 900; Germany, 42,26O,-
600; Russia, "a, 44O, 900; Austro-H Hung
airy, 100000; Italy, 100000. Our
increase of q, 100000 equals the entire
population of Portugal, Belgium,
Holland. Denmark, Sweden, Nor
way, Switzerland, Greece and Servia.
The population of the whole ofSouth
America is 100000.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05


Cant yur drive along about ten
feet and let me in there" called the
driver of = private carriage TO . col
ored man who sat on II load Of ashes in
front of . store yesterday and held the
reins over the back Of . sorry-looking
horse. .-.f...,..
Eyes, sah--co'se I will"
After waiting two or three minutes
without any move being made the
driver called again: lura
"Well, are you going 70 ist me in
thereP"
"Of co'se Tar, san. lie already gin
de ole boss instruckshuns to purceed."
"Then why don't hep"
"Kase de time isn't up. He's fist
gittin' brace fur one forefut. Don't
be in a hurry an I'll hey him outer dis
in less'n twenty minits" -Detroit Free
Press.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
Important.

When you visit orleave New York
City, save Baggage, EXpressage and
Carriage Hire and stop at the Grand
Union Hotel, opposite Grandl Cen
trail Depot.
Elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of
one million dollars, reduced to 81 100
and upwards per day. European
plan, Elevator. Restaurant supplied
with the best. Horse cars, stages and
elevated railroad to all depots. Fam
lilies can live better for less money at
the Grand Union Hotel than at any
other tirst-class hotel in the city. 10
English SPAWN Liniment removes all
Hard, Soft or Calloused Jumps and Blem.
ishes from horses, Blood SPAWN, Curbs,
Splints, Sweeney, Stiles, Sprains, Sore and
Swollen Throat, Coughs, etc. Save $50 by
use of one bottle. Every bottle warranted
by J. B. Ritchey, Druggist, McMinnville
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
WHAT AILS THE NATION1
The Average Length Of Life De-
creasing-Not Pestilence--
Not Famine-All our
own Fault.

own Fault.
MODERN COOKING AND Mon.
ERIN LIVING have brought it
on. It comes upon us una
wares. The patients have
pains about the chest and sides,
and sometimes in the back.
They feel dull and sleepy; the
mouth has a bad taste, especi.
ally in the morning. A sort
Of sticky slime collects about
the teeth. The appetite is poor.
There is a feeling like a heavy
load on the stomach; sometimes
a faint, all-gone sensation at
the pit Of the stomach which
food does not satisfy. The
eyes are sunken, the hands
and feet become cold and feel
clamny. After a while a
cough sets in, at first dry, but
after a few months it is at
tended with a greenish colored
expectoration. The patient
feels tired all the while, and
sleep does not seem to afford
any rest. After a time he be-
comes nervous, irritable and
gloomy, and has evil forebod-
ings. There is a giddiness, a
sort Of whirling sensation in
the head when rising up sud-
denly. The bowels become
costive; the skin is dry and
hotat times; the blood becomes
thick and stagnant; the whites
Of the eyes become tinged with
yellow; the kidney secretions
becomes scanty and high col
ored, depositing a sediment
after standing. There is fire.
quently a splitting up Of the
food, sometimes with a sour
taste and sometimes with a
swedish taste; this is fire.
quently attended with palpi-
tation of the heart and Asth-
matte symptoms; the vision be-
comes impaired, with spots be-
fore the eyes; there is a feel
ing of great prostration and
weakness; All of these symp-
toms are in turn present. 1t
is thought that nearly one-haf
Of our population has this dis
ease in some of its varied forms.
Shaker Extract of Roots lSei-
gels Syrup changes the fer.
ments of the Digestive organs so
asto convert the food we eat into
a form that will give nourish-
ment to the feeble body, and
good health is the consequence.
The effect of this remedy is
simply marvellous. Millions
upon millions of bottles have
been sold in this country, and
the testimonials in favor of it's
curative powers are over.
whelming. Hundreds of So
called diseases under various
names are the result of indi-
gestion, and when this one
trouble is removed the other
diseases vanish, for they are
but symptoms Of the real
malady.
Testimonials from thousands
Of people speaking highly Of
its curative properties prove
this beyond a doubt. = Sold by
Ir.x rprxso%u
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
Mothers Friend.

We have both used Mothers
Friend" and find it to be one of the
best medicines in the world, and
would not be without it in confine-
ment for any consideration.
Mrs. SARAH F. VINCENT,
Mrs. MARY A. LUCK,
Rock Run, Ala.
Treatise on "Health and Happi-
ness of Woman" mailed free.
BRADFIELD REGULATOR Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05

The woman whose favorite hymn
is, 81 would not live always" has
spent $3.50 for patent medicines dur
ing the past ten years.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05
The sweet potato does not blossom

The sweet potato does not blossom
in the open air in the United States,
but plants kept in the greenhouse will
blossom during the latter part of Win
ter or in the spring. The sweet potato
makes nice running plant, and few
persons would suppose.it to be the we'll
known escglunt. ". ]. Post.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05

Bulwer Lytton: What men want
is not talent, it is purpose; in other
words, not the power to achieve, but
the will to labor.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-03-05

This PAPER F. 'E Bowel w iH Cos Ne S 81
Advertising Bureau (Iospruce ST. where Advertising
contracts may be made for 10 IN NEW YORK;
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
rranee,s Two Oyster Beds.

The two principal centers of oyster cul-
turc il France cre at Arcachon and
.Auray. The bay Of Accachon has since
1854 held foremost place in oyster
breeding. In 1867 there were 90 parts,
or district oyster beds; in 1865 the num-
Der had increased to 207, with an output
of over 10000 coo oysters. AT the pres
ent time the little bay, which has total
area of 37,500 acres. has oyster beds
covering an area of $4,000 acres, which
provide annually about 800, 900, 900 oys-
ters for consumption. With regard to
the oyster beds at Auray, on the coast of
Brittany, these, though not so important
as those of Arcachon, have still consid-
cradle output, and, from being exhaus-
tive and unproductive when their rehab-
ilitation was first undertaken, have be-
come full to overiiowing.-New York
Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
Are Won Contemplating a
Trip East or West.

If so bear in mind the fact that
the Chicago and Atlantic, with its
palatial equipment of Pullman day
coaches and luxurious sleeping
cars, offers to the Public advanta-
ges which cannot be eXcelled by
competing lines.
All class Of travel have through
trains, thus avoiding the discom-
fort of changing cars at unreason-
able hours.
Information regarding rates,
through baggage checks, tickets,
etc. can be haG from any coupon
ticket Office.
Ask for your tickets via the
Chicago and Atlantic railroad, and
your journey will be one of COM
fort and pleasure.
+. c. DONALD, Gen. Pass. Agt.
T.. BLoUGHToN, Gen. Manager.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
How to Insert n Leaf.

Most men when they want to insert a
leaf in a book put mucilage on both sides
of the leafs inner edge, put it in the de-
sired place, shut the book, and let the
mucilage dry. Afterward, when they
come to use the book, they find it hard
to read the words at the very inside of
the pages, and later on they wonder why
that leaf will not stay stuck in. The
trouble is that they went to work in the
wrong way. The difficulties can be OBJ
waited very easily. When you wish to
insert a leaf, turn over third OF half
inch of the edge of the paper. Put the
mucilage only on the outer side of the
little flap thus made, taking care to get
none on the rest Of the paper. Then in
sert the leaf and shut the book. When
it is opened, if the outer edges of the sheet
have been trimmed, it will be found to
all intents and purposes a new leaf, as
flexible and durable as any other in the
volume. -"R. l." in The Writer.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
,coNcERNING THE DEAD.
Superstitions of Striking Significance.
Funeral Professions in Ireland.

SuperstitiOns of Striking Significance.
Funeral Professions in Ireland.
Superstitions concerning the dead are
very numerous in all parts of Ireland,
and several are of striking significance.
The hand of the dead has great power
when procured according to certain pre-
scribed formula. For instance the most
powerful mystic charm known in Irish
magic is the hand of an unbaptized in
FAINT, taken from the grave in the name
of the evil one, while the next in virtue
is the hand of murderer. When can
die is placed in the dead hand, no wind
or rain can extinguish it, and if it be car
ried into house at night, all the occu-
pants will sleep the sleep Of the dead as
long as it is burning. Few diseases can
withstand the potency of the dead hand
as a remedy, its virtue being shared even
by garments and articles which have
touched the corpse or have been used in
the funeSal ceremonies. A piece of the
sheet in which a corpse has been wrapped
is good for the headache. and candle ends
used at a wake will cure burns.
The dead greatly desire to rest near tho
places where they lived, an instance
being cited of farmers daughter who
went to Cork and there died of fever.
1t was judged best to bury her there, but
the night after her father returned home
he heard the voice of his child crying, 81
am alone" Waking, he prayed she might
rest in peace till morning, when he at
once set out and brought the body from
Cork to Mayo, where he buried it with
the girls own people. If you hear steps
at night following you, it is very danger
GUS to turn around, for the steps are those
of the dead, and their glance is fatal.
Every twelfth night the dead walk, and
on every tile of the house sits soul wait
ing for prayer to free it from purgatory.
The dead consort with fairies, and moth
ers have sometimes heard the voices of
their children singing the old Irish songs
far down beneath the raths or funeral
mounds where the fairies dwell.
On the west coast, when funeral pro-
cession is halfway to the churchyard, a
halt is made and mound of stones
erected to deceive the evil one, who halts
there and searches the mound for the
dead, while the procession hurriedly goes
on to the graveyard. The dead are often
sent to earth with messages, generally
announcing another death, and are al
ways glad to be SO employed, for their
own relief from purgatory has come.
The last buried in churchyard is CON-
PEELED to do menial service in the spirit
world until another comes to take his
place; hence, when two funerals meet,
every spadeful of earth is turned at the
same moment and the two bodies are in
tered at the same time. Every one who
meets funeral must turn back and walk
at least four steps with it to secure his
own good luck and prevent resentment
from the dead.--St. Louis Globe Demo
crat. ...
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14

In the literature Of to-day, all roads
seem to lead to tho novel. Tho historian
and biographer, the scientist and the es-
sayist, are all likely to turn to fiction at
some time or other, either for mental re-
taxation or for the opportunity of ad-
dressing larger circle of readers than
mere research can hope to attract. Does
the eminent mathematician find his work
grow monotonous, forthwith he sets his
pen to the composition of romances of
thwarted love. Does the scholar erudito
in classical lore and the myths of savage
races become weary of his labors, he
straightway inyents tales of ingenious
yillainy and his mind is refreshed, Viii
liam Morton Payne in The Dial,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
If You are Going to Kansas

Go to Kiowa, Barber county sit
uated about the center from East
to West, on the southern border of
Kansas, Kiowa has II population
of 5000, two banks, fine opera house
$4,000 school house, five lumber
and two brick yards, seven hotels,
churches and n large number of
wholesale and mercantile houses,
two railroads and five more COM
ing. The city has contracted for
one of the finest systems of water
works in the state, town lots are
cheap and the town Is boom ing
Buy u round trip ticket from
the nearest ticket agent to Inde-
pendence, Kansas and at Kansas
City get an extension ticket Inde-
denderce to Iowa and return at
half rates,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14

Trains run on Central Standard Time. "a.
Strains stop only on signal.
Trains 3, ., s, u, 80 and 80, daily. All others
daily except Sunday
Train IL has Pullman Buffet Sleeping coach-
es to Boston and New York dnily
Train has Pullman Buffet Sleeping coach
es from Boston and New York daily.
Train has Pullman Buffet Sleeper from
New York to Chicago daily.
All trains arrive mt and depart from the new
Dearborn Station Chicago.
Passengers taking trains 30, 80, 33. or 30 must
procure tickets before boarding the train.
Passengers who may be going east or west
will lfind 1t TO their interest to consult the
agents of this company, who will give them
all information in regard to rates and con-
nections. Il. G. DONALD
i. BRoUGHToN, General PassengerA ct,
General Manage CHICAGO.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-14
Perpetual Copyright.

The great evil, according to my think
ing, with regard to literature as trade,
is the expiration of copyrights. Copy
rights should never be allowed to expire
at all. They should pay tax on their
income, but they should last for ever.
If Charles Dickens had been a Guinness,
an Allsopp, a Bass or some other great
brewer, he would have founded large
fortune for his successors by the labors
of other men. AS he was simply man
of genius, who gave happiness and
amusement to millions by the work of
his ownsbrain, his property is eventually
distributed broadcast to the world
London Letter in The Book Buyer.